India Is Busy With 'Baahubali 2' & The World Loses Its Mind Over 'Fate Of The Furious' Pirated Copies

Since the past few days, the entire world has been shaking for two reasons – the mystery behind Kattappa killing Baahubali, and ‘The Fate of the Furious’. While, the former has broken all the records in its opening weekend, the latter isn’t far behind and has been setting a record of another level altogether. Apparently, ‘The Fate of the Furious’ has been crashing all the piracy networks, with over 2 million pirated copies illegally shared worldwide in a week after its release.

While we were anticipating that this movie would fail to impress the audience, the million-figure pirated copies seem to be reciting another story. According to Tecxipio, a piracy-analytics firm, these copies which are being circulated on file-sharing networks are illegal camcorders shot in cinemas and seem to be originating from India. Wow! Looks like Piracy and India are like that quarreling married couple, who can neither live with each other nor live without each other. This reminds me of our hostel days where the Wi-Fi was primarily used for downloading pirated copies of movies. Later we will call all the friends to our rooms and criticize the movie together.

This movie is the 8th installment of ‘The Fast & Furious’ series and was released on April 14 in the US. We don’t know how critics will award this movie, but thanks to some smart asses this movie had already become the most pirated film by the first week. Although in comparison to ‘Furious 7’ and Universal’s other movies, it hasn’t made much of an impact even in the world of piracy in terms of numbers. However, given that the copies are said to be camcords and not high quality versions, the numbers are relatively well. According to a report published in Variety, the piracy spiked to 489,400 daily file sharers within two days after the theatrical release in the US and then steadily grew on an average of 420,000 in the following days. If we go by the data, it looks like people are ready to consume any big-budget Hollywood movie even if it’s a no-brainer because something is always better than nothing.

Honestly, we have nothing against this movie but considering other films in the franchise, ‘The Fate of the Furious’ is what disappointment looks like. But if you think Vin Diesel, Charlize Theron or Dwayne Johnson are reasons enough for you to watch it, then you can definitely go.